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Georges Ivanovi Gurdjieff, (in armeno: ?, traslitterato: Georgi Gyowriew; in russo: ?, traslitterato: Georgij Ivanovi Gjurdiev; in greco ), noto nella forma latinizzata francese Georges Gurdjieff (pron. [ rdif]), o G.I. Gurdjieff (Alexandropol, 14 gennaio 1872[1] Neuilly-sur-Seine, 29 ottobre 1949), stato un filosofo, scrittore, mistico e "maestro di danze" armeno.

Di origini greco-armene, visse a lungo in Turchia e in Francia. Il suo insegnamento combina sufismo, scuola mistica dell'Islam (in particolare studi sulle danze sacre dei dervisci), e altre tradizioni religiose (cristianesimo, sikhismo, buddhismo, induismo), esoterismo e filosofia, in un sistema sincretico di tecniche psicofisiche e meditative che cerca di favorire il superamento degli automatismi psicologici ed esistenziali che condizionano l'essere umano.

L'insegnamento fondamentale di Gurdjieff che la vita umana vissuta in uno stato di veglia apparente prossimo al sogno. Per trascendere lo stato di sonno (o di sogno) elabor uno specifico lavoro su s stessi al fine di ottenere un livello superiore di vitalit e consapevolezza. La sua tecnica prevede il raggiungimento di uno stato di calma e isolamento, a cui segue il confronto con altre persone.

Dopo aver attratto a s un consistente numero di allievi e discepoli tra i quali vi erano persone di una certa rilevanza, fond una scuola per lo sviluppo spirituale, chiamata Istituto per lo Sviluppo Armonico dell'Uomo. Gurdjieff fu noto anche come insegnante di danze sacre. La Scuola, una volta a Parigi, prende il nome di Institut Gurdjieff.

Negli anni, l'insegnamento di Gurdjieff ha influenzato diversi personaggi noti della cultura e della letteratura: fra questi, uno dei pi importanti architetti statunitensi del XX secolo, Frank Lloyd Wright, che spos in seconde nozze Olgivanna Hinzenberg, allieva di Gurdjieff e che gli tribut un pubblico riconoscimento durante un congresso svoltosi dopo la morte del maestro. Suoi allievi furono anche la scrittrice Pamela Lyndon Travers, nota per avere creato il personaggio di Mary Poppins e Ren Daumal, scrittore francese che entr in contatto con le sue idee attraverso Alexandre Gustav Salzmann, oltre alla celebre poetessa e scrittrice Katherine Mansfield che, affetta da tubercolosi, volle passare l'ultimo periodo della sua vita accanto al Maestro, vivendo quasi come un eremita in una casetta che Gurdjieff le aveva offerto nella sua tenuta.

L'influenza gurdjieffiana, inoltre, presente anche nella pedagogia grazie al "Modello educativo Etievan", creato da Nathalie de Salzmann de Etievan (figlia di Alexandre e Jeanne de Salzmann) e applicato in diversi collegi del Sudamerica, diffusi tra Venezuela, Cile e Bolivia. Le sue idee hanno anche influenzato diversi artisti, come il cantautore Franco Battiato, e pensatori - tra cui Osho Rajneesh e la New Age - nel corso del XX secolo e in seguito.

Gurdjieff nasce in una data imprecisata (egli avrebbe indicato la mezzanotte all'inizio del giorno del nuovo anno, cio del 14 gennaio) tra il 1866 e il 1877 nella citt di Alexandropol nell'Armenia russa (oggi Gyumri, Repubblica di Armenia) da padre greco (che insieme ad altre professioni anche ashukh, cantastorie) e madre armena.[2] Alcuni autori (come James Moore) optano per il 1866. Sia l'amica Olga de Hartmann che la segretaria Louise Goepfert March, credevano che fosse nato nel 1872. Un passaporto indicava il 28 novembre 1877, ma non coincide con quello da lui sostenuto. Sulla pietra tombale comunque incisa la data del 1872.[3]

Dopo che la famiglia si trasferisce nella citt turca di Kars, Gurdjieff riceve un'educazione religiosa dal suo tutore, il decano Borsh, con cui studia medicina e ingegneria, e prende in considerazione il sacerdozio nella chiesa ortodossa.[2]

Dall'estate del 1885 comincia un lungo percorso in diverse tradizioni spirituali, in particolare quella sufi. Il suo viaggio di ricerca inizi a Costantinopoli (oggi Istanbul) per studiare i dervisci Mevlevi e Bektaschi.[2]

Tra il 1887 e il 1907 forma un gruppo chiamato "Cercatori della verit", compie numerosi viaggi in Medio Oriente, in India, che lo portano dall'Asia Centrale fino al Tibet (dove assiste al massacro dei tibetani da parte dei britannici a Guru e alla successiva conquista di Lhasa). Il motivo (o la suggestione) che lo spinge a continuare il suo pellegrinaggio per vent'anni la ricerca di una misteriosa "Confraternita di Sarmoung", ipoteticamente sviluppatesi nel 2500 a.C. in Babilonia, di cui aveva trovato un riferimento nel 1886. Egli conduce anche ricerche di antichi documenti egizi.[2]

Gurdjieff racconta (in modo romanzato e metaforico) questo periodo della sua vita nel romanzo autobiografico Incontri con uomini straordinari da cui, nel 1978, il regista Peter Brook ricaver l'omonimo film.[2]

Nel 1907, a Tashkent, inizia a insegnare "Scienze Soprannaturali". Nel 1912 forma un primo gruppo a Mosca, e nel 1913 un altro a San Pietroburgo.

Secondo un suo racconto, in questo periodo si sostent anche con lavori bizzarri e talvolta truffaldini, tra cui il venditore di uccelli, in cui spacciava per preziosi canarini uccelli di valore inferiore.[4]

Nel 1915, Gurdjieff accetta Piotr Demianovi Ouspensky (autore del Tertium Organum, un trattato sulla natura dell'universo) come allievo a Mosca. Ouspensky, uomo di cultura e scrittore, fu il tramite per il pensiero di Gurdjieff in Occidente e avrebbe in seguito testimoniato nel libro Frammenti di un insegnamento sconosciuto (tradotto in Italiano da Henri Thomasson) l'esperienza dell'insegnamento di Gurdjieff.

Nel 1916 e 1917 entrano nel gruppo anche il compositore e pianista Thomas de Hartmann e sua moglie Olga Arkadievna de Hartmann. A de Hartmann Gurdjieff detter varie composizioni per pianoforte che vennero pubblicate a nome di entrambi.[2]

Dopo la rivoluzione russa Gurdjieff si rifugia a Essentuki vicino al Mar Nero, dove inizia a sperimentare con alcuni allievi il suo "Laboratorio di Consapevolezza", spostandosi poi in altre localit fra cui Tiflis (oggi Tbilisi), in Georgia. Qui nel 1919 Gurdjieff incontra l'artista Alexandre Gustav Salzmann e la moglie Jeanne Matignon de Salzmann, che aveva studiato danza sotto la guida di mile Jacques-Dalcroze.[2] In collaborazione con Jeanne, Gurdjieff elabora i suoi movimenti, o danze sacre, che presenta per la prima volta a Tiflis nel giugno 1919. Nello stesso anno costituisce l'Istituto per lo Sviluppo Armonico dell'Uomo.[2]

Nel 1920 Gurdjieff e l'Istituto per sfuggire alla guerra civile si trasferiscono a Costantinopoli (oggi Istanbul).[2]

Il 24 novembre 1921 Gurdjieff tiene a Berlino la sua prima conferenza europea. Nel frattempo Ouspensky in Inghilterra aveva divulgato il lavoro di Gurdjieff raccogliendo attorno a s molti allievi. Gurdjieff acquist la tenuta di le Prieur des Basses Loges a Fontainbleu-Avon, alle porte di Parigi, dove si stabilisce nel 1922. Al Prieur fonda una grande Casa di Studi in cui vissero e lavorarono accanto a lui artisti, scrittori, pittori, matematici, filosofi, architetti, musicisti, e ogni genere di individui, impegnati in una seria e profonda ricerca interiore. Qui organizz una vera e propria comunit indipendente con pascoli, coltivazioni, diverse attivit lavorative orientate ad un "intenso lavoro su di se". I "movimenti" o "danze sacre" erano il coronamento del suo insegnamento.[2]

Le serate di musica e danze sacre organizzate da Gurdjieff riscuotono interesse tra numerosi intellettuali anche oltre i confini europei, tanto da organizzare nel 1924, e negli anni successivi, diverse tourne negli Stati Uniti.[2]

Sempre nel 1924 ebbe un gravissimo incidente automobilistico che quasi lo uccise, e al quale fece seguito una lunga e dolorosa convalescenza, assistito dalla moglie e dalla madre (morta di cancro nel 1926). Questo cambi anche l'orientamento del suo lavoro.[2]

Gurdjieff deve lasciare il Prieur nel 1932, e lo perde definitivamente a causa di difficolt economiche nel 1933. Allo scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale, Gurdjieff abita in un piccolo appartamento in Rue des Colonels-Renard al numero 6, e si rifiuta di abbandonare Parigi quando le truppe tedesche la occupano. Pare che sia riuscito a intessere rapporti anche con gli occupanti.[2]

Gurdjieff continua tuttavia a insegnare le sue idee e le sue tecniche nella Parigi occupata e nei frequenti viaggi negli Stati Uniti. Nel 1924 fond dei gruppi negli Stati Uniti diretti da Alfred Richard Orage. Inizi a scrivere una serie di opere con lo scopo di trasmettere i fondamenti del suo insegnamento per le generazioni a venire.[2]

Negli anni 1936-1937 anima il gruppo "La Corda" (The Rope), costituito da scrittrici americane lesbiche, fra cui Margaret Anderson e Jane Heap, che erano state le fondatrici della Little Review a New York.[2]

Dopo la fine della Guerra, dal 1945 l'opera di Gurdjieff volta a riunire tutti i propri allievi sparsi per il mondo (Parigi, Londra, New York), dando vita a un intenso periodo di lavoro nell'appartamento parigino di Rue des Colonels-Renard.[2]

Nel 1948 le sue condizioni di salute si aggravano. Muore il 29 ottobre 1949 all'Ospedale Americano di Neuilly, dopo avere trasmesso le sue ultime istruzioni a Jeanne de Salzmann.[2] lei, a partire dal 1950, seguendo le istruzioni del Maestro, a organizzare i tanti gruppi di allievi nella Scuola diffusa in tutto il mondo e nota ancora oggi sotto il nome Gurdjieff Foundation, i cui centri principali sono Parigi ("Institut Gurdjieff"), New York ("Gurdjieff Foundation"), Londra ("The Gurdjieff Society") e Caracas ("Fundacin Gurdjieff Caracas"), e che presente anche in Italia con il nome di "Associazione o Centro Italiano Studi sull'Uomo G.I. Gurdjieff" e le sedi di Milano, Torino, Roma, Palermo, Cagliari. Dopo Jeanne de Salzmann, sar suo figlio Michel de Salzmann ad occuparsi a livello internazionale della Scuola, fino alla sua morte avvenuta nel 2001.

L'organizzazione denominata The Gurdjieff Foundation dunque l'espressione delle Scuole di Parigi, New York, Londra e Caracas, che vennero create seguendo le dirette istruzioni di Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Scopo dell'Associazione Internazionale delle Fondazioni Gurdjieff, definita a volte semplicemente come "la Scuola di Gurdjieff", di preservare l'essenza, la specificit e l'integrit dell'insegnamento del maestro.

Sono numerosi gli allievi anziani di Gurdjieff ad aver continuato il proprio lavoro all'interno della Fondazione dopo la sua morte. Fra questi, si ricordano Olga Arkadievna de Hartmann, Henri Tracol, Henriette Lannes, William Segal, John Pentland, Michel De Salzmann, William Welch, Louise Welch e molti altri. In Italia, l'organizzazione stata costituita a partire dai primi anni settanta da Henri Thomasson. Le teorie di Gurdjieff furono trattate anche dal famoso mistico e guru indiano Osho Rajneesh (riprese in particolare l'uso del corpo e del movimento, la necessit di creare meditazioni adatte all'uomo moderno e occidentale e alcuni comportamenti appositamente provocatori), che tuttavia giudic il sistema del filosofo armeno "incompleto".[5]

Fra i discepoli e ammiratori attuali pi noti, vi sono il regista teatrale inglese Peter Brook - il cui film Incontri con uomini straordinari e la sua autobiografia I fili del tempo riportano ampie testimonianze della sua vicinanza all'insegnamento di Gurdjieff -, il polistrumentista e compositore britannico Robert Fripp (fondatore dei King Crimson), il cantautore e regista Franco Battiato (riferimenti alle tematiche del filosofo e mistico armeno si trovano ad esempio in brani come Il Re del mondo, Centro di gravit permanente e Voglio vederti danzare), la cantante Alice, il pianista e compositore Roberto Cacciapaglia, il politico e imprenditore Gianroberto Casaleggio.[6]. Il cantante e compositore inglese David Sylvian.

Gurdjieff afferm che l'uomo non nasce con un'anima, ma che la deve creare durante l'arco della sua vita, altrimenti morir come un cane, ossia senz'anima. Per "anima", egli si riferiva alla coscienza superiore, distinta dalla coscienza ordinaria degli esseri umani, definita come una forma di sonno, sostenendo che gli stati di coscienza superiori sono possibili. Fece riferimento allo strumento dell'attenzione come mezzo per accedere a nuove percezioni ed al "ricordo di s". Insegn attraverso lo strumento delle "danze sacre" o "movimenti" di gruppo, accompagnati da musiche composte in collaborazione con il musicista Thomas de Hartmann, musiche che Gurdjieff compose ispirandosi a ci che aveva sentito e assimilato durante i suoi viaggi.[7]

Gurdjieff propose una sua personale classificazione delle tradizioni spirituali esistenti[7]:

Secondo Gurdjieff[7], le "vie" tradizionali per lo sviluppo interiore dell'uomo risultano inadatte alla vita dell'uomo occidentale, in quanto richiedono l'abbandono della vita ordinaria per dedicarsi interamente ad esse.[7]

La Quarta Via (termine introdotto da Ouspensky, in quanto Gurdjieff usava solo l'espressione "lavoro su di s"), la "via dell'uomo astuto", pone l'accento sull'armonizzazione dell'uomo in tutte le sue parti costituenti, permettendogli di poter continuare la propria vita quotidiana normalmente. La sua particolarit consiste nell'essere attiva nella vita di tutti i giorni, perch propone l'apprendimento di un sapere antichissimo, tramandato esclusivamente oralmente e per pratica diretta, con il quale l'uomo addormentato pu risvegliarsi dal suo torpore profondo, iniziare a conoscere se stesso, ed "aprirsi" a quelle zone luminose interiori, inesplorate e sacre, attraverso il primo raggiungimento di una nuova qualit di Essere.[8]

Piotr Demianovitch Ouspensky lo descriveva cos:

Secondo Pietro Citati, che ha dedicato un saggio a Katherine Mansfield[9], Gurdjieff "emanava una forza sinistra" e "torturava i suoi discepoli". Tra quei discepoli la Mansfield era stata accolta a Fontainebleau, dove incontr anche la vedova del suo autore prediletto Anton Cechov, durante lo stadio terminale della malattia che la condusse alla morte, secondo Citati a causa delle privazioni e delle pratiche "sciamaniche" a cui si sarebbe sottoposta nella comunit di Gurdjieff, su consiglio del maestro. Rest nella comunit per circa tre mesi, fino alla morte, in una piccola casa messale a disposizione.[10]

Ben diversa da quella del saggista italiano la versione dell'eminente anglista Nadia Fusini, che sulla base di documenti autografi (tra cui i diari e le lettere della Mansfield al marito, pubblicate in un Epistolario tradotto anche in italiano) ha pubblicato una biografia accurata della scrittrice (bench inserita in un romanzo che le fa da cornice)[11]. A Fontainebleau tra danze, meditazioni, lavoro duro, incontri, la grande scrittrice neozelandese decide dove e come morire e scrive nelle sue ultime pagine di diario Al Sole va chi morendo pensa al Sole. Gurdjieff venne per accusato gi all'epoca di essere "l'uomo che uccise Katherine Mansfield".[12] Tuttavia autori come James Moore e il contemporaneo (amico di Gurdjieff e conoscente della Mansfield) Piotr Demianovi Ouspensky[13] affermarono che la Mansfield sarebbe comunque morta molto presto dato lo stadio avanzato e incurabile della tubercolosi, e che Gurdjieff rese invece felici e appaganti i suoi ultimi giorni di vita.[14]

Secondo alcuni, Gurdjieff indossava appositamente una "maschera di apparente fraudolenza" per percorrere la via che i sufi chiamano la via di malamat ossia la "via del biasimo", consistente nello scandalizzare appositamente, come un maestro zen, ad esempio comportandosi anche in maniera incoerente o poco consona.[15] Henri Tracol scrisse che per esempio, non ha mai esitato a far sorgere dubbi su s stesso con il tipo di linguaggio che usava, con le sue contraddizioni calcolate e col suo comportamento, ad un punto tale che la gente intorno a lui, in particolare chi aveva la tendenza ad idolatrarlo ciecamente, fosse finalmente costretta ad aprire gli occhi sul caos delle sue reazioni.[15]

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BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950), the acclaimed dramatist, critic and social reformer, was born in Dublin where he grew up in an atmosphere of genteel poverty. He attended four schools and was tutored by a clerical uncle, but left his formal schooling behind him at the age of 15. He developed a wide knowledge of music, art and literature under the influence of his mother, a singer and vocal music teacher, and as a result of his visits to the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1876 he moved to London, where he spent his afternoons in the British Museum, and his evenings pursuing his informal education in the form of lectures and debates. Bernard Shaw declared himself a socialist in 1882 and joined the Fabian Society in 1884; soon he distinguished himself as a fluent and effective public speaker and an incisive and irreverent critic of music, art and drama.

Shaws first play, Widowers Houses, was produced privately in 1892 for the members of a progressive theatre club called the Independent Theatre Society. It was followed by The Philanderer and Mrs Warrens Profession. Published as Plays Unpleasant (1898), these Bernard Shaw plays reflect Shaws admiration for the new drama of Ibsen. More palatable, though still rich with challenges to conventional middle-class values, were his Plays Pleasant (1898) which included Arms and The Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell. In 1897 Shaw attained his first commercial success with the American premiere of The Devils Disciple, which enabled him to quit his job as a drama critic and to make his living solely as a playwright. In 1898 he married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress whom he had met through his Fabian friends Beatrice and Sidney Webb.

Bernard Shaws plays first attained popularity in London through a famous repertory experiment at the Royal Court Theatre from 1904 to 1907. Among his plays presented there were the premieres of John Bulls Other Island (1904), Man and Superman (1905), Major Barbara (1905) and The Doctors Dilemma (1906), the latter two of which were performed at The Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake in 2010. Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw, by far his most popular work, was first performed in 1913. During World War I, Shaws anti-war pamphlets and speeches made him very unpopular as a public figure. In Heartbreak House (performed 1920) he exposed the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the carnage. Next came Back to Methuselah (1922) and Saint Joan (1923), acclaim for which led to his receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1925. Shaw continued to write plays and essays until his death in 1950 at the age of 94.

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Theatre Night (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1989) (play - 1 episode, 1987) 1982 Guiding Light (TV Series) (certain characters created by - 1 episode) 1982/II Candida (TV Movie) (play) Estudio 1 (TV Series) (1 episode, 1982) (play - 6 episodes, 1970 - 1980) 1977 Galateya (TV Movie) (play "Pygmalion") 1972 Stage 2 (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) Teatterituokio (TV Series) (play "Village Wooing" - 3 episodes, 1966) (play "O'Flaherty VC" - 1 episode, 1967) (play "Man of Destiny" - 1 episode, 1963) 1966-1967 Conflict (TV Series) (written by - 3 episodes) ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1958) (writer - 3 episodes, 1957 - 1966) (original play - 2 episodes, 1958 - 1962) (play "Man and Superman" - 1 episode, 1962) (story - 1 episode, 1962) (play - 1 episode, 1956) 1966 Heiraten (TV Movie) (play "Getting Married") 1964 Festival (TV Series) (Play - 1 episode) 1964 Candida (TV Movie) (play - as Bernard Shaw) 1963 Festival (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) 1963 Platea (TV Series) (1 episode) 1960 Startime (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) 1957 Helden (TV Movie) (play "Arms and the Man") Matinee Theatre (TV Series) (novel - 1 episode, 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1956) Omnibus (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1953 - 1955) (story - 1 episode, 1956) (play "Arms and the Man" - 1 episode, 1953) 1955 Folio (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) 1946 Saint Joan (TV Movie) (play - as G. Bernard Shaw) 1941 Major Barbara (original play) / (scenario and dialogue) / (screenplay) 1939 Geneva (TV Movie) (play - as Bernard Shaw) 1939 Candida (TV Movie) (play - as G. Bernard Shaw) 1938 Pygmalion (play - as Bernard Shaw) / (scenario and dialogue - as Bernard Shaw)

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